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Qualifications and employment

I hold a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

I also hold a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (B.A. Hons.) four-year degree from the University of Otago, New Zealand. My major subject was Political Studies. Concurrently with this, I completed a Diploma of Language and Culture (German).

During the 2014 New Zealand election campaign, I co-authored a weekly column for the Herald on Sunday newspaper (Auckland) on the role of Twitter on the election. We also compiled the Twitter Top 100, New Zealand’s first rankings of Twitter accounts to follow in the political scene.

On election day in New Zealand in 2014, my analysis was featured on the live blog from The Guardian.

I edit and maintain several Twitter lists for New Zealand media and politics. These lists have proven especially popular with journalists and parliamentary staffers as a way to keep up with the enormous amount of content being shared every day.

I am a qualified translator for German to English. I am a certified translator in Germany, as a staatlich geprüfter Übersetzer für Englisch in the state of Hesse. I also hold the Diploma in Translation qualification from the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL, London).

In addition to my first language of English, I speak near-native German, as well as fluent Spanish and Swedish. I hold advanced language qualifications which certify my skills:

I have a strong interest in the workings of the news media in general.

In addition to the experience gained from collaborating with the news media directly, I created and taught a course for several years at university level. This course integrated theory with real-world examples and critically analysed the way news is gathered, reported and presented.

In 2012, I visited the studios of Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar.

Further information

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